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Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 5, Anti-Semitism – Will It Appear in the U.S.?

Pictured right: In 1880 the Jewish population of the United States was about 250,000. Over the next forty years more than two million eastern European Jews – about one-third of the entire Jewish population there – emigrated to the United States.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Pictured right: Theodore Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, said that wherever Jews live in perceptible numbers, the Jewish Question exists – because “our presence produces persecution” where it didn’t exist before. The Jewish Question according to Ford was, how does a tiny minority gravitate to the highest places in government, business and finance?

Next week: Chapter Five: “Anti-Semitism: Will It Appear in the U.S.?”

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 3, Jewish History in the United States.

Pictured right: Henry Ford at age 22. The year was 1886; he had already lost his beloved mother 9 years earlier. He left the family farm in 1879 to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit, but returned in 1882 and became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine. He was later hired by Westinghouse to service their steam engines. He also studied bookkeeping at a business college in Detroit during this time.

Next week: Chapter Four: “The Jewish Question – Fact or Fancy?”

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scottgive the context in which The Dearborn Independent was begun as the Ford International Weekly in 1919; who were the main players; and Ford’s likely motivations for carrying out the project.

In this first program, the Preface and Chapter One The Jew in Character and Businesswere read and discussed. Next week, the completion of chapter one is scheduled.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew -- The World's Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.